For a website that questions everything the spews forth from the MSM I’m constantly amazed how FR takes what it says about the Church at face value. The Church is always discussing and considering the Will of God. This is no different and I’m sure the discussion will come to the same conclusion the Church has for millennia.
The Church isn’t a private club with rules for the membership. We are the Family of God following where He leads. We do not take of the Body of our Lord when living in a state of sin... not because the Church doesn’t like it but because we condemn ourselves when we do (1 Cor 11:29). The Church is looking out for you, not barring you from lunch.
The only question is whether or not remarried couples are living in sin. We have mechanisms in place already to determine the answer and heal the wounded.
Trying telling that to Rep. Pelosi or VP Biden.
I personally know someone who is doing exactly that, in anticipation of the changes that are expected under Pope Francis. The message is being telegraphed that "sin" has now become negotiable.
We have mechanisms in place already
Exactly. So what is the purpose of the synod?
“The only question is whether or not remarried couples are living in sin. We have mechanisms in place already to determine the answer and heal the wounded”.
Not the ones that got an annulment through the Church. This is not about to change. Been that way for a long, long time. An annulment meant the marriage basically never happened. And let me tell you, the Church does not automatically grant them. It took my wife 3 years from the time she started for the Church to approve it. She had to have all kinds of documentation. In the end she proved that her “catholic” husband was not really catholic. He went to Mass when they were going together. Once married he refused to go in the front door of the Church. Her and a few others had to attest to his abandoning the church. The annulment was finally approved and we got married in the Catholic Church a few months later. And before anyone asks, we did not live together before we were married.
Truer words were never spoken.
It does explain why the number of people who claim to be conservative never seems to match up with the turnout for elections, though. A good number of "conservatives" are actually nothing but patsies for various hot button issues and as long as the MSM can hit the right button they'll respond.